12:44
BELGRADE CALLS ON KOSOVO SERBS TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIONS
During the joint session, the members of the Yugoslav and Serb governments called upon the Kosovo Serbs Friday to participate in the Kosovo parliamentary elections on November 17 More details...

19:22
MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT TRAJKOVSKI CALLS FOR STREAMLINED PATTERNS TO ARREST REBELS
Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski is willing to launch the drafting and passing of a law on partnership with the international tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague. The new act is to simplify the procedure for terrorist arrest and dispatch to the Dutch capital. More details...

19:19
ALBANIAN MILITANTS GEAR UP FOR SPRING OFFENSIVE
A group of Albanian guerrillas armed with the most advanced weaponry has negotiated secret routes from Kosovo and Metohija to Macedonia. More details...

15:53
WESTERN LEADERS INVITE KOSOVO SERBIANS TO PARTICIPATE IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION IN KOSOVO AUTONOMY
Leaders George W.Bush of the United States, Tony Blair of the United Kingdom and Jacques Chirac of France sent messages to Yugoslavia's President Vojislav Kostunica. They ask Kosovo Serbians to participate in the parliamentary election scheduled in Kosovo for November 17. More details...

12:44
MACEDONIAN DEFENCE MINISTER VLADO BUCKOVSKI COUNTS ON RUSSIAN HELP IN COMBATING TERRORISM IN BALKANS
Vlado Buckovski, the Macedonian Defence Minister, is relying on Russian help to combat terrorism in the Balkans and believes it is the corner stone of bilateral military and technical cooperation. He made this statement during his interview with the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. The interview will be published on Wednesday. More details...

16:00
AL-QAEDA SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Deputy Interior Minister of the Muslim-Croat federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Tomislav Limov announced at Tuesday press conference in Sarajevo that five Algerians had been recently arrested after threatening the US embassy More details...

17:52
MOSCOW AND SKOPJE URGE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF SITUATION IN KOSOVO
Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov and Macedonia's President Boris Trajkovski have urged the need for an early settlement of the situation in Kosovo. They said this during their meeting on Monday in Russia's Defence Ministry More details...

17:10
DMITRY LITVINOVICH: MILOSEVIC IS CHARGED OF ALL DEADLY SINS
The litigation on the case of former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic is getting a new development. Chief prosecutor of the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, Carla del Ponte, signed a new indictment against Slobodan Milosevic More details...

18:31
MACEDONIA: ANA OWNS UP AS REBELS ATTACK POLICE PRECINCT
The Albanian National Army owned up a violent act as ethnic Albanian rebels were shooting at a police station to hit an officer in Tjarce village near Tetovo, Macedonia, in the small hours today, says Tanjug news agency with reference to reliable informants in Skopje. More details...

18:14
SERBIA'S VICE-PREMIER CALLS UNMIK TO CONFIRM YUGOSLAV TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
The UNMIK, United Nations civil mission to Kosovo, would do wise to confirm Yugoslav sovereignty and territorial integrity in the interests of peace and stability in that part of Europe, Nebojsa Covic, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the coordination centre for Kosovo and Metohija, said in an interview with the newspaper Blitz. More details...

12:59
WASHINGTON TO OPPOSE ALBANIAN EXTREMISM
Washington stands by its position concerning protection of Albanians' rights in Yugoslavia in the light of the recent terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, US Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Vershbow said at a Friday press conference. According to him, Albanians were victims of extremism and cruelty under the Milosevic rule. More details...

13:36
RUSSIAN AND MACEDONIAN PRESIDENTS TO MEET IN MOSCOW OCTOBER 29
Russian president Vladimir Putin and Macedonian leader Boris Trajkovski are to meet in Moscow on October 29, the Russian president's press service reported Thursday. The Macedonian president will arrive in Moscow October 28-29 for a brief official visit. More details...

11:26
RUSSIAN PEACE-KEEPER KILLED IN KOSOVO
A Russian peace-keeper has been killed in Kosovo. "The corps with a bullet wound in the head of the serviceman from the Russian peace-keeping contingent in Kosovo was found not far from his unit's quarters last night," the press service of the Russian Defence Ministry told RIA Novosti Thursday. More details...

16:33
LEADER OF KOSOVO ALBANIANS CALLS ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO RECOGNISE INDEPENDENT KOSOVO
During talks with the Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and Defence Minister Bjorn von Sydow, Chairman of the Democratic Union of Kosovo Ibrahim Rugova called on the international community to recognise "as soon as possible the independence of Kosovo." More details...

13:15
ALBANIAN TERRORISTS BLOW UP LOCAL ADMINISTRATION AND POLICE BUILDINGS IN A POPULATED AREA IN NORTHERN MACEDONIA
Albanian terrorists blew up the buildings of the local administration and police in the populated area Tearce, Northern Macedonia, the country's foreign ministry spokesmen reported in Skopje on Tuesday. More details...

14:19
MACEDONIAN SECURITY FORCES TO ENTER NORTHERN ALBANIAN VILLAGES
On Monday, the Macedonian Security Forces intend to enter five villages mainly inhabited by ethnic Albanians in the country's north, Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Bozkovski reported. More details...

12:09
PROSECUTOR GENERAL OF HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL TO ARRIVE IN BELGRADE
On Monday, Prosecutor-General of the International Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Carla del Ponte arrives in Belgrade for a working visit. On Tuesday she will visit Podgorica, capital of Montenegro. More details...

15:29
MACEDONIA TO PURCHASE YUGOSLAV ARMAMENTS
The Macedonian and Yugoslav Defence Ministers have achieved a principled agreement on the delivery of Yugoslav weapons and military hardware to the Macedonian Armed Forces. Reports from Skopje read that Macedonia is interested in purchasing missile systems, weapons and equipment for special anti-terrorist units, and training aircraft. More details...

13:20
YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT AND MACEDONIAN DEFENCE MINISTER FOR REGIONAL BALKANS CONFERENCE
Yugoslav President Voislav Kostunica and Macedonian Defence Minister Vlado Buckovski agreed during their Thursday meeting in Belgrade that a regional conference on the Balkans problems would be crucial for maintaining stability in the region, according to the Yugoslav president's cabinet. More details...

18:20
SERBIAN, ALBANIAN REPRESENTATIVES HAVE A FIRST MEETING IN KOSOVO
High-profile Albanian and Serb officials and other ethnic minorities met Thursday in the Kosovo capital of Pristina. The meeting was initiated by the OSCE and the American Institute of Ethnic Relations More details...

13:51
MACEDONIA: REFUGEES RETURN AND CIVILIANS SECURITY ON TOP OF PRIORITY LIST
The OSCE, EU and NATO together with the Macedonian authorities are intent to ensure the refugees' return and re-establish the central power in the entire country. Incumbent OSCE chairman, Romania's foreign minister Mirca Goana told journalists about this Thursday. More details...

18:25
RUSSIA TO SUBSTITUTE ALL ITS PEACEKEEPERS IN KOSOVO AND BOSNIA
Russia will substitute all its peacekeepers in Kosovo and Bosnia. In compliance with the order of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, the peacekeeping functions, which are currently performed by the Russian Air-Borne Force, will be transferred to the infantry More details...

17:27
250 MASS GRAVES FOUND IN BOSNIA SINCE 1996
After the 1992-1995 civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 250 mass graves with remains of over 12,000 people have been found in the former Yugoslav republic, a state commission looking for people reported missing during the war said in Sarajevo More details...

13:06
TERMS OF SUBMISSION OF LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR COMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS PROLONGED FOR SERBIAN COALITION "FOR RETURN"
All the Kosovo parties and associations except the Serbian coalition For Return have already submitted lists of their candidates for the coming parliamentary elections in the region. But the Central Election Commission decided to prolong the submission terms for this coalition. More details...

12:57
DAMAGE DONE TO MACEDONIAN ECONOMY EXCEEDS BILLION GERMAN MARKS
The damage done to the Macedonian economy by the actions of Albanian separatists is estimated at 1,232 million German marks, the Macedonian Chamber of Industry reported on Tuesday. More details...

19:14
ALBANIAN MILITANTS' TRAINING CAMP OPERATES IN U.S.-CONTROLLED KOSOVO
A training camp of Albanian militants functions near the village of Ropotovo, close to Kosovska Kamenica, in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, which is controlled by the American force, sources from the Russian peacekeeping force in Kosovo reported on Tuesday More details...

14:26
NATO SERVICEMEN WHO PARTICIPATED IN OPERATION ESSENTIAL HARVEST, LEFT MACEDONIA
All 4,800 NATO servicemen who participated in the operation Essential Harvest on disarmament of Albanian militants, have left Macedonia, NATO Spokesman Tim Dunne said in Skopje. More details...

12:48
FORMER LEADER OF ALBANIAN MILITANTS IN KOSOVO TO ARRIVE IN TURKEY ON MONDAY
Former leader of the Albanian militants in the Yugoslavian province of Kosovo Hashim Thaqi will arrive in Turkey on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey reported on Saturday. More details...

14:21
CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION DELEGATION TO GO TO CROATIA
A delegation of the Russian Central Electoral Commission (CEC) headed by Alexander Veshnyakov is due to set off for Croatia on Friday. According to the CEC press service, the delegation is to participate in the annual conference of the Association of Central and East European Countries Election Organizers, timed to coincide with this organization's 10th anniversary. More details...

11:22
BORIS TRAJKOVSKI ASSERTS THAT MACEDONIA WAS ATTACKED FROM OUTSIDE
Macedonia was attacked from the outside at the moment when it achieved an economic and political stabilisation. The Albanian terrorists, apropos of nothing and under the pretext of fighting for human rights, carried out aggression against Macedonia, despite the fact that the country was an example of good inter-ethnic relations. More details...